The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-09-03
MISCELLANEOUS,


1923 killed on land, according to Stats
tics.
The IT'S grandchildren of a noted
Utah apostle of polygamy are all under
twenty-nine years of age, says the
Phoebe (Nev.) Record.
THAT tree yondcr has been stand
ing over two hundred years." said the
guide, pointing at one of the kings OF
the forest Il should think it would
be awful tired, p" replied a Boston girl.
--Pucb.
But for the house fly, says Prof.
Proctor, epidemics would carry off a
million people per year. Think of this,
gentle reader, when you feel like anathe-
matizing the winged household pet
that sticks to you SO affectionately!
In constructing a locomotive for the
Ratofogasta railroad of Chill, the Bald
win Locomotive Works has placed the
frames outside the driving wheels and
so gained tirebox width of thirty-two
inches in a thirty-inch gauge.
Yes" said the High Street woman
to her neighbor, ''we have had depress-
ing times in our family. Johnny was
taken with ulsteration of the diagramt
then information set in and went to his
brain. 1t nearly killed him, but he4nan-
aged to pull through"
Guest Cat summer hoter-"Who
is that distinguished looking young
man wiping dishes?" Proprietor
THAT is Mr.. Emerson Tracy Bancroft,
who delivered the magnificent Grafton
on The Ideality of Life at Yalemouth
commencement" - Burlington Free
Press.
Miss Mabel c. Rouse. West Han
over lady over seventy years old, sat
down the other evening, and, without
the aid of dictionary, astonished the
Dwehey family, with whom she is living,
by making 500 different English words
out of the letters in the word "Charles
town"
The real estate fever in Southern
California is no respecter of persons.
1t attacks physicians as virulently as
other mortals. A few days since, &C,
cording to the Press, a Riverside physi-
clan wrote prescription, and under
the head of directions" said: "Take
one-third down, and the remainder in
one and two years, secured by mort.
gage"
The man who wears glasses can
sympathize with the wearer of newly
polished pair of boots. The former
can not pass the vender of cheap lenses
without being assailed with the refrain,
"Glasses? spectacles?" and it is also a
well-known, though unexplainable fact
that the bootblack can never see a pair
of shiny boots without crying out,
''Have shine?"
Mr.. Gorham Gray writes of the
project of telephone communication
between this country and Europe:
"Telephoning through a wire being
only and simply wave of reproduction
similar to an air wave or sound, or |
might say wave of the ocean, is per-
fectly practical for 5000 miles, and
III 1elCO lllOlG 81 uuNltl w dJtl Jlldu dCIldl,
for disturbances atmospheric do not
occur under water, nor do disturbances
occur at depth below given sounding
distance below the surface of the water,
as the water at that depth is at rest
The Epoch has the following from
a woman who is reputed winner al
the races: Il choose the horse whose
number in the entries corresponds with
the day of the month; or, if can't dc
that, l select combination of two
horses whose numbers when placed to-
gether represent the date of the event,
and back one of them to win and the
other for place. For instance, if it is
the twenty-ffth day of the month
play No. to win and No. 5 for place
knew nothing about Eurus, but hi:
number was IS. The Suburban was
run on the 18th of June. l backed
Eurus. He won.'